I'm so old I remember... (employee, fun, neighborhood, city)

[ptsum]

I remember watching Mickey Mantle hit a home run out of Griffith Stadium in Washington, DC and the baseball landed two blocks away from the stadium.

[Bart0415]

I am old enough to remember when radios were big wooden boxes and had vacuum tubes. When you turned it on you had to wait for about a minute for the tubes to warm up before you could get any sound. Also they had big illuminated dials with the names of cities and radio stations. You would dial in by turning a knob that moved a needle across the dial panel and some more sophisticated models had 4-5 predial buttons that stored the location of a particular station by some mechanical means. They had three bands, AM, Shortwave, and Longwave. The speaker was usually covered by a fabric of some kind.

Also I am old enough to remember computers that ran with punch cards. When I was in college we did not have direct access to a terminal but we had access to a couple of card-punching machines where we would punch out our Fortran programs (one command per card) and then submit them to some operator who would take them inside the off-limits inner sanctum that housed the mainframe and you would come back next day and receive your output printout and your cards back. The result, the first time around was usually ***FATAL ERROR*** at which point you would go through your cards and try to figure out which command you had screwed up. After a few backs and forths like this you might finally be lucky enough to get the program to run.

[quiet walker]

Originally Posted by Northwoods Voyager

I am so old I remember the movie, 'The Outlaw' starring Jane Russell. My cousins and I were not allowed to go to the movies to see this picture. At the time it was thought to be way to risque for youngsters.

My Dad would not allow me to buy a 45 of Elvis's "Hound Dog." His moves were thought to be too suggestive (even for Ed Sullivan - Elvis was filmed from the waist up). My Mom intervened and I eventually got both "Hound Dog" and "Jail House Rock." "Everybody in the old cell block, is dancin' to the jail house rock..."

[ptsum]

Hell I'm so old I remember doing arithmetic on my fingers, didn't have no computer or calculators, wait a minute....... I still do that sometimes......Been known to take my shoes off also, to count over 10....

[quiet walker]

Originally Posted by ptsum

I remember watching Mickey Mantle hit a home run out of Griffith Stadium in Washington, DC and the baseball landed two blocks away from the stadium.

I remember two things about Griffith Stadium. The green riveted iron beams and the wonderful smell of the Wonder Bread bakery across the street from the entrance when you arrived (on the streetcar).

[ptsum]

Originally Posted by quiet walker

I remember two things about Griffith Stadium. The green riveted iron beams and the wonderful smell of the Wonder Bread bakery across the street from the entrance when you arrived (on the street car).

Build Strong Bodies eight ways, and then changed it to 12 ways, added some new ingredients......yeah,I remember that smell.......It was sooooooo goooooood....
And the WM&A green and white streetcars, Scared the hell out of me when they went around a turn,thought it was going to turn over....

[jabm67]

I can, and do, proudly state that I urinated on the Berlin Wall before it fell.

[Northwoods Voyager]

I remember going to business school and besides studying typing and shorthand like a good girl should, I also studied the usage of a machine called a comptometer. It had rows and rows of keys that you punched using both hands for addition, multiplication, division, and subtraction. Funny thing is, after I finished the courses, never used any except typing at times.

[delusianne]

In my mother's time, women who'd just become mothers stayed in the hospital for 14 days as a matter of course.

[Northwoods Voyager]

I remember that also, and no one was allowed in the delivery room. And never any siblings of the newborn allowed.